Commission Actions

The Federal Trade Commission said today that the Telemarketing Sales Rule implemented by the Commission will be a “strong new weapon in the arsenal against demand draft fraud and telemarketing fraud...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it has reached settlements in two more of the 34 cases it filed last July as part of “Project Telesweep,” a federal-state crackdown on deceptively...

Two Seattle-based companies and their owners, Kurt Tripp and Ngoc Ly, have settled Federal Trade Commission allegations that they falsely represented Native American-style carvings as authentic Native...

The Federal Trade Commission will allow clothing manufacturers and other marketers to use the name “lyocell” in the fiber content labels they are required by law to place in garments and other textile...

If telemarketers who promise to help consumers “clean up” their credit records ask for any money up front, they’re breaking the law. Moreover, they can’t do what they promise, if the information in...

Ford Motor Company and its advertising agency, Young & Rubicam, Inc., have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made false claims about the extent to which Ford’s MicronAir...

Keith Parker, president of Desert Financial Group (DFG), a Las Vegas company, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they falsely told consumers -- most of them senior citizens --...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following actions. The FTC staff contact is Dan Ducore, 202-326-2526. Applications for prior approval of transactions: The FTC has received an...